But yeah I'm all for anything that helps troops that are no longer serving.

But if the wars are a stem of the problem... ending them is the best first step to take. Then the tax dollars going to the wars could instead go into funding the programs you're talking about. That's not too difficult to understand is it?

When our troops come home, our government and too many people tell them they did a good thing. How many times have you heard that worn line "thank you for your service to our country." Yeh, yeh, but it hurts the inside when one knows deep down one helped with doing the worst of the worst ..... Contradictions in the mind haunt. Many can't take it, and that in my opinion is the true source of PSTD... that tearing in the mind which when intense enough can lead to suicide.

May our men and women in uniform who suffer these things take solace in realizing that the mental anguish they suffer only means they are good people for only psychos would feel nothing. ...and should one come to the understanding that the contradictions which were created are beyond one's personnel control. One has to get away from that patriotic bullshit in order to realize the truth. There is both good and evil in this land, and one often has to dance with the devil.. and should one not find a way out of the dance, at least the mental contradictions can evaporate, and the pain goes away.

On or about the summer of 1980, a Staff Sgt took three hostages at a military banking facility. Weapon in hand, the promise of a big silverbird "back to the world," in tow - -so he could see his girl - - he exited the building, shielded by these civilians. He made it to the second step - sharpshooters, three rounds to the head, just another statistic. You didn't read about this one in the papers, you won't find it anywhere online, there are a thousand other statistics you will never even hear of. Suicide is a regular occurrence in the peace time army, too. I know, because I was there.

Life is rough on the plains... but it's even rougher when your knee deep in the muck and the mud and the blood, and I'm quite certain Bliss is aware of this. ADA all the way, babeee!